Dark Mage Beta (1997) (Greg Troutman) (WIP)
Alien Greed II Test (2008) (Steve Engelhardt) (WIP)
Run! (2005) (Broch, Bucket) (WIP)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1982) (Wizard Video Games, Bob s, Robert H. O'Neil) (Prototype)
Sync (2008) (Simone Serra)
Fat Eddie (2007) (Chris Read) (WIP)
Lilly Adventure (NTSC Conversion) (2001) (Thomas Jentzsch)
7 Ships (2006) (Fred Quimby) (WIP)
Panic at the Disco (2007) (Justin Gilman, Nicole Green, Ben McMurray)
Click here to view the manual to this game. Realsports Football is a 1982 football video game made by Atari for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200 and Atari 8-bit computer platforms. Realsports Football presents a greatly simplified version of football for play. Players in the game cannot go out of bounds or fumble the football, and there are no penalties in the game. Also, touchdowns automatically score 7 points; there is no kicking for extra points.
Click here to view the manual to this game. Time Pilot is a multi-directional scrolling shooter and free-roaming aerial combat arcade game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, released by Konami in 1982, and distributed in the United States by Centuri. Debuting in the golden age of video arcade games, it is a time travel themed game that allowed the player's plane to freely move across open air space that can scroll indefinitely in all directions. The Killer List of Videogames included Time Pilot in...
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Working Game (2005) (Doug Dingus) (WIP)
Click here to view the manual to this game. Keystone Kapers was a 1983 game published by Activision for the Atari 2600, and later ported to Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit family, ColecoVision and MSX. Inspired by Mack Sennett's slapstick Keystone Cops series of silent films, the object of the game is for Officer Keystone Kelly (the user) to catch Harry Hooligan before he can escape from the department store. In this game, Officer Kelly and Harry are in a four story department store. Each round Kelly...
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Battle Pong (2007) (Jerry Fu, Stevie Frederick, Zeeshan Ebrahim)
Action RPG (2007) (Mord) (WIP)
Click here to view the manual to this game. Fathom is another great game from Rub Fulop, who programmed several other classic Atari 2600 games such as Night Driver , Missile Command , Demon Attack , and Cosmic Ark . Unlike his previous hits, this one is a slower-paced adventure game, in which the player alternates between playing as a dolphin and a seagull. The goal is to swim and fly through multiple screens, searching for starfish that will give you a piece of Neptune's trident. Once the...
Based on the horror movie of the same name, The Entity is an unreleased action game by programmer Mark Klein. In the game your goal is to move the Entity to the highest plane of existence before your energy runs out. The game is divided up into several rows (planes of existence) similar to Taz, but in The Entity you can only see three rows on the screen at one time. Between each of the rows is a portal (hole) through which you must force the Entity. This is accomplished through the careful...
Click here to view the manual to this game. Space Shuttle is a simulation game where you are the pilot of space shuttle Discovery. Your goal is to launch the Discovery, establish an orbit around the Earth, open the cargo bay doors and recover a satellite to perform repairs, and finally land the Discovery successfully, all while using as little fuel as possible. Each time the complete mission is accomplished, it will then repeat at a higher difficulty level (in the higher difficulty levels the...
Click here or here to view the manual to this game. Released for the Atari 2600 video game console in 1980, Video Pinball featured actual simulations of a pinball machine ball shooter, flippers, bumpers and spinners. The game also implemented a simulation of a real ball's actual physics. The game also features a unique rollover bonus with an Atari Inc. logo on the playfield; hitting the logo four times results in an extra ball. It was programmed by Bob Smith. Most of the game play involves...
Unknown Activision Game #2 (1983) (Activision) (Prototype)
Persian Gulf War (AKA River Raid) (Funvision Fund. International Co.)
Dolphin (1983) (Activision, Matthew L. Hubbard, Bob Whitehead) (AX 024)
Radial Pong (2002) (Jeffry Johnston) (WIP)
Minotaur (2006) (Michael Biggs)
Racer (1982) (Atari, Joe Gaucher) (Prototype)
Rally X (2004) (Anthony es) (WIP)
Reindeer Rescue (2005) (Bob Montgomery, Nathan Strum)
River Patrol (1984) (Tigervision) (7 004)
Rocket Command 1K (2005) (Fred Quimby)
Rollerball (2007) (Steve Engelhardt) (WIP)
Mental Kombat (2002) (Simon Quernhorst)
Smurfs Save the Day (Kid Vid Voice Module) (1983) (Coleco) (2511)
3 Player Game (Manu Kapoor) (WIP)
Space Cavern (1981) (Apollo Games by Apollo, Dan Oliver) (AP 2002)
River Raid (1983) (CCE) (C 811)
Boxing La Boxe (1980) (Activision, Bob Whitehead) (AG 002, CAG 002, AG 002 04)
Grand Prix (1982) (Activision, d Crane) (AX 014, AX 014 04)
Archon (2004) (Christopher Tumber) (WIP)
Click here to view the manual to this game. Adventures of Tron is an action game produced by Mattel, and was released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It is based on the Disney film Tron and received fairly positive reviews from critics. The game environment consists of 4 floors, each with flying "bits" as well as enemy MCP attackers: Recognizers, Light Tanks, and Grid Bugs. The objective of the game is to control Tron (you) in a maze of platforms and elevators while trying to intercept...
WANTED: A master builder to create structures per blueprints for Spectraville. To apply, insert cartridge into Atari 2600 and power on machine. You are shown what you are to build for 5 seconds. To get the bricks, go to either side of the screen and press in that direction. To lay a brick, press fire then down. When Spectradog comes on the screen, you must jump over him by pushing the joystick to the upper right or upper left or he will make you lose one life. As the building gets higher, the...
From Atariprotos.com : Sinistar on the 2600?!?! Yes you're reading this right; Sinistar on the Atari 2600. Somehow Atari managed to cram the complex arcade game Sinistar into an 8K 2600 cartridge, and the results were simply amazing! After many arcade ports of questionable quality, Atari finally managed to get one right. Too bad they never released it... For those of you who've never played Sinistar... Shame On You! Sinistar is one of the most beloved (and difficult) arcade games of all time,...
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Zi The Fly Buster (2002) (Fernando Mora) (WIP)
Table Top Quidditch Kernel (2008) (Aaron Bergstrom) (WIP)
Terrance and Phillip Asses Of Fire (2008) (Chris Read)
Turbo (2007) (Steve Engelhardt) (WIP)
Virtual Pet (1997) (Chris Cracknell) (WIP)
Super Breakout (Paddle) (1982 1981) (Atari, Carol Shaw, Nick 'Sandy Maiwald' Turner Sears) (CX2608 49 75165) [a]
Shadow Keep (2003) (Andrew Towers) (WIP)
SWOOPS! (2005) (Thomas Jentzsch)
Octopus (2007) (Fred Quimby) (WIP)
McDonald's - Golden Arches Adventure is an unfinished and unreleased game from Parker Brothers. You are Ronald McDonald flying in your spaceship. Hungry aliens are descending on the Golden Arches below to eat them. You must fly down to the ground and pick up McDonald's food to bring up and feed the aliens, but certain aliens will only eat certain McDonald's fast food (shakes, fries, hamburgers) so you need to feed them the right food. If you don't feed them in time, they start to eat the Golden...
Mr. Do! (1983) (Coleco, Ed English) (2656)
Demon Attack (Canal 3 Intellivision) (C 3016)
Labyrinth (2006) (Bill Collins) (WIP)
24 Column Text Kernel V2 (2007) (John Payson) (WIP)
Crystal Castles (01 04 1984) (Atari, Michael Kosaka, Peter C. Niday, Robert Vieira) (CX26110) (Prototype)
Pool Hoppers Test (2004) (Thomas Jentzsch) (WIP)
Click here to view the manual to this game. Pole Position is the conversion of the arcade racing game. Enter the Grand Prix, race against other racing cars to achieve the highest score possible in the shortest amount of time. Before the player can enter the Grand Prix, the player must first qualify by competing in the Qualifying Lap within 73 seconds or less. If the player however, does not qualify in the Qualifying Lap, the player may continue to race until the Race Timer runs after 90...
Click here to view the manual to this game. Activision Tennis is a 1981 Atari 2600 video game by Activision. It was one of a series of sports games by Activision, which also included 1980's Activision Boxing. Activision Tennis was designed by Activision co-founder, Alan Miller. Activision Tennis is played for one set of games, in which the first player to win six games won the competition. One of the players on the screen appears in pink; the other one in blue. Most of tennis' rules applied to...
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Pac Man 4K New Death Animation (2007) (Dennis Debro, Espire8)
Red Sea Crossing (1983) (Inspirational Video Concepts, Steve Shustack) (321430)
Rally B (2005) (Fred Quimby) (WIP)
Rip Off (2009) (John W. Champeau) (WIP)
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (CCE)
MASH (AKA M.A.S.H) (1983) (CCE) (C 859) [a]
Slaughterhouse (2007) (Brad Bittinger) (WIP)
Video Simon (2000) (Mark De Smet)
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The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in September 1977 by Atari, Inc. It is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and ROM cartridges containing game code, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F, instead of having non-microprocessor dedicated hardware with all games built in.
The console was originally sold as the Atari VCS, for Video Computer System. Following the release of the Atari 5200, in 1982, the VCS was renamed "Atari 2600", after the unit's Atari part number, CX2600. The 2600 was typically bundled with two joystick controllers, a conjoined pair of paddle controllers, and a cartridge game—initially Combat and later Pac-Man.
The Atari 2600 was wildly successful, and during much of the 1980s, "Atari" was a synonym for this model in mainstream media and, by extension, for video games in general. The Atari 2600 was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York in 2007. In 2009, the Atari 2600 was named the second greatest video game console of all time by IGN, who cited its remarkable role as the console behind both the first video game boom and the video game crash of 1983, and called it "the console that our entire industry is built upon."
